Thursday, August 11, 19411
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Sweeping Changes Due for Fund-Raising Drives
By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
HE RECENT CONFERENCE in Israel, participated
in by the heads of the UJA and other fund-raising
agencies made far-reaching decisions which will be
made public later.
The most important realization which emerged at
this conference is the recognition that the old methods
of raising funds for Israel are obsolete and much too
petty to answer the needs of the Jewish State. Gradu-
ally, within the next few years, the s :
methods will be changed.
Even the most gigantic campaigns
are no longer considered sufficiently
dependable and reliable. And you
may look forward to revolutionary
announcements at the close of this
UJA campaign,
• • •
JAMES WATERMAN WISE'S
"Legend of Louise" does not do jus-
tice to the personality of his mother,
Biron
Louise Waterman Wise. It is badly
written. Too bombastic and top heavy with flowery,
meaningless phrases. Jimmy is a much better writer
than he shows in this booklet.
A son should never operate on his mother. This is
an iron-clad rule in surgery. It should also be applied
to literature.
That Louise Wise refused a decoration from the
British king is interesting and characteristic of Jim-
T
my's mother. But it is not the most important fact in
her biography. Jimmy makes it so and thereby re-
duces the stature of Lady Wise.
Somebody—no relative—should do a real job and
write the life story of the woman who was much more
complex and versatile and surely much more progres-
sive than James W. Wise's "Legend of Louise"
• • •
NEXT MONTH the ZOA will sponsor a number
of celebrations on the occasion of the centennial of
Max Nordau's birth.
Nordau died a poor man in Paris in 1923. lie had
sacrificed his personal fortune and his career as a top
paid journalist and author refusing to give up his
active interest in Zionism.
He was mistreated by the two leaders of the
world Zionist movement, Weizmann and Sokolow be-
cause he disagreed with them and objected to their
anglophile policy. He never had much confidence in
the Balfour Declaration and clamored for a concen-
trated action to transplant 600,000 from the Ukraine,
Poland and Romania to Palestine.
During World War I. he was imprisoned in France
(he was an Austrian subject) and when released spent
a number of years in exile in Spain.
The story of Nordeau, the powerful intellect, the
great thinker and beloved writer and physician, with-
out whom Herzl's work would have failed, ended
tragically. Today even his enemies recognize his pro-
phetic vision.
Israel Balks Frisch Plan.
for U.S. Zionists' Unity
In Hi gh P" q
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
(Jewish World News Service)
NEW YORK—The outstanding fact of Daniel Frisch's report of his
mission to Israel was not his advocacy of the Marshall plan for
Israel and of a coalition government of all parties of Israel for a
period of three years, but a part
of his report which has been gen- (
was sure that he would accomp-
erally overlooked. This was the fish them.
frank acknowledgment by Frisch !
• • •
of the failure of the chief aim
A
SADDER
MAN
of his mission—unity and peace
between American Zionists and ' THE MAN WHO reported five
Israel. The failure. it is true, was weeks later was not a less self-
not due to him, but to circurn- confident but obviously a sadder
stances and forces above his, or man. Frisch seems to be one of
Commander Joshua L. Gold-
any one man's control. Neverthe- those eternally hopeful men who
have faith in the power of reason berg, who has been named by
less, it was a failure.
and of words to convince people. the navy as chaplain of the
Anyone who was present at the
He ardently wanted unity and Third Naval District, the high-
press interview five weeks ago
est administrative post ever
when Frisch, fresh after his elec- peace. Everyone else wanted the
tion as ZOA president, was leav- same thing. Why should it not occupied by a Jewish chaplain
be accomplished?
in time of war or peace. Rabbi
ing for Israel and who attended
But life seldom works that way, Goldberg is the navy's liaison
the interview after his return
particularly in our age of strong, officer with the Jewish Wel-
could not help being struck by
fare Board.
the difference in the atmosphere unreasonable emotions which
sway people more than reason.
between the two.
I Frisch went to Israel to get a on this vital question of the next
Frisch. before leaving for Is-
charter for a number of projects UJA campaign, ended in letting
rael, was a hopeful man eagerly
looking forward to his journey which the ZOA, under his lead- the Histadrut,. Hadassah and the
ership wanted to carry out. He numerous other fund-raising
and highly confident of success.
He had made unity and peace his did not get that much desired bodies already in the field to con-
chief aims as president and he charter. The projects will go on tinue with their old campaigns.
and may even succeed, but the
And so, Frisch, was obliged,
desired cooperation on the part of against his will, to come back to
the Israeli leaders did not ma- the United States with a project
terialize,
that the ZOA should do the same
The Israeli government refused that others are doing, start an
the charter on the ground that if independent campaign of its own.
the ZOA gets such a charter, Instead of greater unity, there
others too, would have to get one will be greater division; instead
MUNICH—(WNS)—Refusal by (overlooking the fact that others of peace, the future promises
Russian authorities to divulge in- already have their charters and dissension and an intensification
formation about Jewish commun- have had them for years.).
of old quarrels.
• • •
• • •
Ries in the Russian-held zone of
Germany has made it impossible NO FUND UNITY
EXTERNAL EXPEDIENTS
to establish contact with these
FRISCH AND THE ZOA want-
IT WAS THIS failure of his pet
communities, Harry Greenstein, ed a unified control of all fund- projects that has evidently moved
adviser on Jewish affairs to the collections for Israel in America. the new ZOA president to come
American Military Government, Everybody seemed to want the back with proposals for Israel's
said.
same thing, yet the big conclave participation in the Marshall
Greenstein made the statement in Tel Aviv which was to decide Plan and for a three year po-
at a conference of representatives
of Jewish world organizations
and of the Central Committee of
Liberated Jews held at Heidel-
berg. The conference was also
addressed by John J. McCloy,
American high commissioner
designate for Germany, and Dr.
Eugen Kogon, a liberal German
Catholic editor.
McCloy voiced the opinion that
a new, permanent Jewish com-
munity will arise in Germany,
while Dr. Kogon advocated that
NOW AVAILABLE AT
the future German state blot out
the Hitler atrocities and estab-
lish a friendly relationship with
Israel.
Greenstein told the conference
HAMILTON AVE.
that about 57,000 Jews are now
living in western Germany and
IACK MARKOWITZ
Berlin. These will be reduced
Assistant Sales Manager
further, he said, by an emigra-
tion of about 30,000 by the end
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of the year. Approximately 15,-
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000 Jews live in the Russian zone,
he estimated.
SIGN OF THE TIMES: We read in a newspaper
a classified advertisement in which a lady offers to
exchange her apartment in Tel Aviv for an apartment
in New York.
P.S. The lady got scores of replies.
• • •
BELONGS TO YESTERDAY: The newcomers to
Israel are not eager to settle on Kibutzim. They do
not show the idealism of yesterday when youngsters
came to Palestine to create a new and better formula
for collective life. Most of the new immigrants want
to do business and preferably not on any kind of farm.
• •
•
THE MAIL BROUGHT us an extraordinary book.
The author is Nathaniel Buchwald and the title reads:
"Yiddish for Adults."
The book describes itself as "a textbook for begin-
ners" but it is much more than that. It is the first book
of its kind. A very serious, scholarly work.
It is not designed to teach pidgin Yiddish. Buch-
wald has succeeded in giving a systematic presenta-
tion of the fundamentals of Yiddish grammar and
idiomatic constructions. For any adult who wishes to
learn Yiddish and study the language like any other
modern language this is an ideal volume.
And what's more it is a fascinating book because
it convinces you that Yiddish, contrary to popular con-
ception, is not a chaotic language but subject to strict
grammatical and syntactical rules.
litical truce. Because American
Jewry evidently cannot be uni-
tied by a mere appeal to reason;
because the problems of Israel'
are getting more complicated and
bigger than before and the pow-
ers of American Jewry, smaller
and less. effective by division,1
Frisch had to fall back on ex-1
ternal forces, such as the Marshall
Plan and United States loans to
make up for the other, more de-
sirable plans that had failed.
CENTER DAY CAMP
Registrations are still being ac-
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Camp Habonim. the Center day
camp. For registrations, call Miss
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